Wilderness Wandering

May 13 to May 16 The End Tuesday  We left Alabama and arrived in the Florida panhandle. There are a lot of huge bridges over large bodies of water in the region.  We stopped in Mossy Head. All there seemed to be was a little store and a little restaurant. The store had a sign…

Southern Edition Part 6 May 8 –  May 12 We made it to Louisiana!  I’m getting into the slower Southern ways. I love driving 10 miles under the speed limit on the quiet country roads and stopping in the middle of the road to take pics of interesting things along the way.  We went over…

Southern Edition 5 April 30 – May 7, 2025 We arrived in Austin, TX to visit Tim’s college friend Rick Edwards and his wife Toni. We learned right away that traffic is BAD in Austin! We ate an early dinner at a wonderful barbecue restaurant called County Line. I had salmon and potato salad. Tim…

April 25 thru April 29, 2025 We passed through Dryden, TX (population 33) this morning.  There’s a taxidermy/butcher shop/convenience store there called Stuards. I spoke with the owner for a while and Tim bought some of their award winning beef jerky. The female owner butchers various animals, does taxidermy and runs the convenience store.  There…

April 20 – April 24, 2025 Easter Sunday was our last day with Linda and David. We began the day with a delicious Texas style breakfast in Hillsboro at The General Store Cafe with Becky, Donna, and their friends Shelly and Suzanne.  We were in Hatch, NM at lunch time.  As you would expect on…

Southern Edition 2 April 14 – April 18 Theodore Roosevelt Lake is a large reservoir formed by the Theodore Roosevelt Dam on The Salt River in Arizona. It is a highly popular recreational area. There are miles of beach area. Is about an hour outside Phoenix, but feels much further away from civilization.  There are…

April 5, 2025 San Diego Tim and I began a new adventure. Neither of us has spent a significant amount of time in the Southern part of the United States. We decided to take Calypso and correct that! We set up a few guidelines before we left.  * Travel around 65-70 miles per day. *…

If at first you don’t succeed…try, try again! As some of you may know, we were supposed to visit American Samoa back in February, but “someone” broke her arm and we had to delay a little while. We are back at it! 3/31/2025 American Samoa is one of those places you can’t get to from…

Sunday Feb 2, 2025 We arrived on Kauai to beautiful sunny skies. Our team leader Bob and another team member, Wade pulled up in the white Ford Transit being used to transport us for the week.  We took off for our lodgings in Eleele, a small neighborhood on the south end of the island. We…

Thursday, January 30,2025  We arrived at the Maui airport early in the morning to return our rental car. There were weather warnings about a winter storm passing over all the Hawaiian islands bringing gale force winds and torrential rains. Our flight to The Big Island had a connection in Honolulu.  We arrived in Honolulu about 9:30…